One person dead after Nyeland Acres stabbing

Second person stabbed in separate incident in Oxnard

Ventura County Sheriff’s deputies discuss what happened as they investigate the scene where a man was fatally stabbed on Ventura Boulevard in Nyeland Acres on Wednesday evening.

Rob Varela / Star staff

A Ventura County Sheriff’s deputy stands near where a man was fatally stabbed on Ventura Boulevard in Nyeland Acres on Wednesday evening.

Rob Varela / Star staff

Ventura County Sheriff’s deputies investigate the scene of a fatal stabbing on Ventura Boulevard in Nyeland Acres on Wednesday evening.

Rob Varela / Star staff

One person was stabbed and died in a fight in Nyeland Acres Wednesday evening along Ventura Boulevard, which runs along the north side of Highway 101.

Don Aguilar, a sergeant with the Ventura County Sheriff’s Department, said an autopsy would determine if the victim, described as a male, died from the stabbing.

Sheriff deputies were on scene within minutes of the stabbing, which was reported about 6:35 p.m. They found the male lying on the ground. Deputies were unable to resuscitate him.

Investigators had yet to arrest anyone in connection with the killing as of 10 p.m., Aguilar said.

A man at the scene said the dead person was a 15-year-old boy from the neighborhood, but authorities couldn’t confirm an age or a name.

Deputies closed Ventura Boulevard between Almond and Orange drives as onlookers gathered nearby. The killing occurred just five minutes before another person was stabbed in the Lemonwood Park neighborhood of Oxnard about 6:40 p.m., some two miles south of where the Nyeland Acres killing took place.

Police investigators could not say if the two incidents were related.

“It’s too bad people choose to solve their differences this way,” said Mario Alfredo, 39, of Nyeland Acres, as he stood among a group of onlookers along Ventura Boulevard.

Alfredo said he wishes Nyeland Acres residents would band together to form some sort of Neighborhood Watch group, something that he said might make it harder for anyone contemplating a violating crime in the area.

Witnesses said the assailants fled the area in a vehicle.

In Oxnard, meanwhile, police had yet to arrest anyone in connection with the Lemonwood Park neighborhood stabbing as of 9:30 p.m. The stabbing occurred around the area of San Mateo Place and El Dorado Avenue about 6:40 p.m.

Police said the stabbing victim, a 22-year-old Oxnard man, told officers he was walking along the 2300 block of El Dorado Avenue when a dark-colored sedan pulled up. The man said someone in the sedan assaulted him, stabbing him.

The man was taken to St. John’s Regional Medical Center, where he was treated for stab wounds. He was listed in stable condition Wednesday night.

The Oxnard Police Department is asking anyone with information on the stabbing to contact Detective Alex Arnett at 486-6297.